The system will serve as a one-stop response centre for citizens, who will be able to file a complaints directed at any government department on a single platform. Until now, coordination between government departments on citizen queries has been a weak spot in public service delivery, admits Liu Yan, a spokesperson for Dalian’s Municipal Government E-government Agency.
Read more: Chinese city Dalian launches citizen feedback system
The medical records of eight million patients are already being accessed electronically by 30,000 health-care workers via the Hospital Authority network.
Around 69,000 patients are electronically linked with 1,600 private doctors.
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The Yellow River Delta Cloud Computing Center will be used as a common platform to promote e-government services. It will also be used to develop applications to boost the efficiency of the petroleum industry and the use of green technologies.
Read more: Chinese city of Dongying builds public cloud to aid innovation
Once established in the major cities, the high-speed information network will be expanded in rural areas to meet the province’s ‘every village broadband’ objective and remove the ‘low internet speed bottleneck’ that has hindered development, Caoxiao Wu, Deputy Director General of Economic and Information Technology Commission, Anhui Province, told FutureGov.
The project, which began in 2007, is China’s first full-service integrated network platform to be built in a rural area, and is designed to bring information technology to 16 cities, 129 counties and 130,000 villages in the province.
Read more: Chinese rural ICT project hits US$18 million mark